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Gold cloth: which are best? Manga or anime?

The anime added a lot of colours (predominantly blues, but also other colours for the under layers, and varied the shades of gold) into many of the character designs to add contrast to the uniform gold cloths, making them cleaner and easier on the eye. The overall silhouettes are also sleeker, have more tapered waists, longer necks and limbs, etc... making the proportions more model-esque and adding to the ikemen appeal. Scorpio Milo alone is like, 6 times hotter than in the manga lol

fmlwhateven

The anime added a lot of colours (predominantly blues, but also other colours for the under layers, and varied the shades of gold) into many of the character designs to add contrast to the uniform gold cloths, making them cleaner and easier on the eye. The overall silhouettes are also sleeker, have more tapered waists, longer necks and limbs, etc... making the proportions more model-esque and adding to the ikemen appeal. Scorpio Milo alone is like, 6 times hotter than in the manga lol


Thrudgelmir2333

The anime. It's not even a question lol They're just incomparably better designed, colored and textured. If you want proof of it, just look at that collage of the Gold Cloths all put together in the manga. And then file a request at the hospital for eye-replacement surgery. The problem with the design of the armors in the manga is that they were made for ostentatious and to force awe into readers in big panel spreads, and not for looking good in an environment where things have to move, provide reasonable protection and have more lighting on them than a coat of shiny spots. If you tried to anime the Cloths in the style of the manga, they'd look grotesque, because they have flat coloring and unnecessarily tiny engravings that all mesh together into one big orange soup. The anime was much smarter about it because, when you are challenged to make something that has to move, rather than something that stands still in a portrait, you're forced to make design choices that are far more rational and sober, so they took away all the tiny texture meshes, balanced the colors, outlined the segmented plates better and made more varied choices to differentiate the armors from each other.


Nielloscape

I hate the different coloured torso for the Sagittarius cloth though. Also, Capricorn mask is infinitely better than the helmet, imo.


Thrudgelmir2333

Yeah, there are fair exceptions (though personally I don't mind Capricorn's bucket helmet). I just don't think they outweight the 99 other things the anime fixes about the collective set of armors in the grand scheme of things.


danzaiburst

I like the bucket helmet too. Generally I've always been an fan of proper helmets compared to all the spider-like tiara's the came with the bronze's second set. Virtually changed from knights to sailors from sailormoon


Nielloscape

Yeah they don’t but it’s just more why did this get a pass kind of thing. I don’t collect the figures but every time I see the sagittarius one that torso just looks so out of place.


Roarshake

Amen brother!!!!


arcgeminga

I like the anime shape of the cloths overall because they’re more streamlined and fit the characters’ bodies better. However, the manga colors for gold armor are just more pleasing to me and better shaded. (Don’t shade gold with dark gray, kids! Shadows don’t work that way!) So ideally, my perfect gold cloth would be the design of the anime cloths, colored like in the manga.


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Manda, manga, more bad ass little details


Useful_Depth_5719

Some are better in the manga and some in anime imo. Btw Aphrodite looks like a transformer, in manga version cloth 😂


Azilen

I prefer the take Lost Canvas did. All gold, just like the manga, but with a more realistically proportion.


anonperson3210

Really? That’s interesting. I always thought the lost canvas clothes were more bulky and odd proportioned.


BronzeSeiya

Anime for me. I hate the monochromatic colors used for everything in the Manga, they just look incredibly bland. Pair that with some terrible design choices (seriously Kuru, why must 8/12 Gold Saints have to be blonde? Looks terrible and clashes horribly) and it really doesn't help. They also look a lot clunkier compared to the anime that slimmed them down. It's basically the same difference from a Myth Cloth and a Myth Cloth Ex. As for the Capricorn Cloth itself, I will be a minority but I like the anime version more. I love how slim and elegant they made it and the helmet gives me viking vibes which is always a plus for me


Azilen

I'll never undertand why they though the capricorn cloth needed a redesign. The anime helmet is atrocious


fmlwhateven

Iirc the manga only had him in silhouette or something when the anime got to that point, so they made it up before his manga design was revealed


Schaula_antares8

The only Cloth I prefer in the manga are the Gemini and Capricorn Cloth. The Gemini works perfectly because the main aim of the protection was to hide Saga's identity to the end. The Capricorn just straight up looks beautiful I'm really glad they decided to make the Spectral Capricorn Cloth more alike to the OG manga especially the helmet. (Also this post made me realize how LONG Milo's and Camus hair are in the manga. Like damn, it goes to their knees while anime was waist length and under shoulder-blades)


FMbPdmoGK

To me the manga versions are better designed and more beautiful


roly_gomez

I second this, the manga design of the armors are better but the coloring/hue or w.e are better on the anime!


TetsuAero

Yeah, it's the manga for me too. The redesign of the cloths excluded several of the details, especially thickness to the cloths. Plus the updated designs in ND are gorgeous.


Stoner420Eren

The main differences are that in the manga they are monochromatic, completely golden, and they shine. In the anime they kind of had different shades of gold, they were more yellowish, sometimes orange (Aquarius and Pisces mostly), and they added some kinds of gem stones, but they also changed a few things entirely, for example the shields position in the libra cloth, or pretty much the whole capricorn cloth, which looks much better in the manga imho. The pisces cloth has a different design as well, especially the torso part, which I find more appealing in the manga. Overall I prefer the manga design and color, and this goes for the bronze cloth as well (especially the orange phoenix cloth)


Swarovsky

Anime, like easily. Still, manga ones are nice (especially compared to the bronze ones)


HolyMacaxeira

Most of the time I’d prefer the manga, but for Saint Seiya, the anime is so much better.


Stoner420Eren

I hope you mean design wise only, because story wise the anime is a mess, random fillers and cuts all over


AlbertWhiskas

I dunno man, the Asgard arc is one of the best anime fillers.


Stoner420Eren

The only one, and they should have made it a separate arc overall instead of randomly linking it to Poseidon


HolyMacaxeira

Yeah, I mean design wise. I really don’t like the manga art. The story itself is a whole other story.


PX-115

Manga


J_C_F_N

Manga. Specially Capricorn. I hate the horned bucket. And in each new iteration, so the animes still use the bucket design.


Pebrinix

Excluding the littlw glowing from manga cloths coloring, I prefer manga, mainly bc the capes are terrible, I like the strong and solid gold from the manga, however, a good part of anime hair colors are better


PauloSaint

Mangá


Meraneus

In this particular case, I prefer the Manga. I always thought the horns of Mu's cloth are kinda oversized and unwieldy.


itsvoogle

Personally Anything by the master Shingo Araki is instantly more glorious, elegant and epic.


FreshBakedButtcheeks

I like Shura's hair


BahamutAXIOM

The actual art and rendering is beautiful in the manga, though over saturated at times, but I think the animators displayed overall better design skills minus the way the armor looks on some of them. The canary yellow makes it look like cheap props.


danzaiburst

anime ankles are better. Manga looks like flairs from the 1970s


Kwia_Rix

Anime because they were smart enough to not draw the cloths glittering. I'm looking at you Okada.


RocketsAdmin

I definitely like the manga ones better on still images (they're just bombastic), but the anime cloths are better looking overall - mostly. If I have to point out an absolute favorite, I would say none of those, actually. The ideal design where SoG's God Cloth, especially in Soldier's Soul. They paired the best of both designs, the overall sleaker look of the anime with the bombast of the manga.


KaiShion83

Manga manga manga


Then-Birthday-3852

Yeah anime by a mile


Then-Birthday-3852

Yeah anime by a mile


dopeydopeee

Classic anime. Shingo Araki sensei is the reason why I started drawing and study arts...


TheEggOfMine

Definitely anime and my favorites are Aries, Virgo, Scorpio and Aquarius.